Improved AMD Radeon drivers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Alan Wake 2 and AI applications

AMD recently released the latest driver for Radeon, which includes support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and AI acceleration for RDNA GPUs and APUs. The driver includes performance improvements and optimizations for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and DirectML. It is compatible with all RDNA GPUs and APUs, but not with older Polaris and Vega models. A separate driver version is available for these models, but it does not offer the same range of functions. The driver adds support for four games, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III definitely being the highlight.

As well as adding support for various games, AMD has also added a new Radeon Boost profile for Alan Wake 2. This means that gamers who love the thriller game and need extra performance can now take advantage of it. In addition, improvements and optimizations have been made for DirectML, impacting AI applications such as Stable Diffusion, Adobe Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve and UL Procyon AI. Owners of a Radeon RX 7000/6000 GPU or a Radeon 700M/600M APU can take advantage of these benefits.

So far there is no information on whether the Radeon Anti-Lag feature, which was removed from driver releases due to its game-changing design and several reports of player bans, will be reinstated. Hopefully AMD will be able to resolve these issues soon so that we can use the anti-lag feature in an improved version in the future.

New features at a glance

• New Game Support
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
  • The Invincible
  • JX3 Ultimate

• New Radeon Boost Support
  • Alan Wake 2
• AI and Machine Learning
  • DirectML enhancements and optimizations for Stable Diffusion, Adobe Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve, UL Procyon AI workloads on AMD Radeon RX 600M, 700M, 6000 and 7000 series graphics cards.

Resolved issues

• The Performance Metrics overlay may display “N/A” for FPS in various games.
• Some AMD graphics products such as the Radeon RX 7600 may experience lower than expected performance in Counter Strike 2.
• Intermittent flickering may occur in the menus of Total War: Pharaoh after changing graphics settings.
• When playing Alan Wake 2, intermittent flickering may be observed on some textures.
• Restarting Baldur’s Gate 3 using the Vulkan API may incorrectly require rebuilding the shader cache.
• Restarting Forza Motorsport may incorrectly require the shader cache to be rebuilt.
• Intermittent black screens or error code 31 in Device Manager may occur on some AMD graphics products such as the Radeon RX 6700 XT after restarting.

Known problems

• Audio may occasionally be out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition using the AV1 codec.
• Occasional corruption can be observed on the race track when playing EA Sports WRC.
• Stars may occasionally not appear while playing Crysis Remastered.
• Occasional micro-stuttering may occur when running Chromium-based browsers on systems with a Radeon RX 7000 series GPU and a secondary display connected to an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor.

Product Compatibility

Desktop:

• Radeon RX 7900/7800/7700/7600 Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics

Mobile:

• Radeon RX 7900M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6800M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6700M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6600M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6500M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 6300M Series Graphics
• Radeon RX 5700M/5600M/5500M/5300M Series Graphics

Integrated:

• Radeon 700M
• Radeon 600M

Source: AMD